- Petula Dvorak
- Columnist
Transgender at Five
Tyler was born a girl, but insisted he was a boy. Now the five-year-old revels in life as a boy.
Transgender at five: Tyler’s story leads to outpouring of other stories
Hundreds of e-mails and comments reveal one thing: Children struggling with gender-identity issues are more common than we think.
Encounter in second-grade class leads to story of transgender 5-year-old
The family had been wrestling with their younger child’s gender identity. “A boy mind in a girl body” was the way big sis was explaining things to everybody, including my son.
Drug treatments for transgender kids pose difficult choices for parents, doctors
While no one knows how many children struggle with gender dysphoria, more are getting treated. One rarely used option, hormone injections at 16, makes the children sterile.
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